The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26

United States the field of employment
for women has been limited by respect
for the gentler sex.
T. THOMAS FORTUNE, the young col
ored editor who has been trying for the
past few years to edit the New York
Freeman, a paper for the colored peo-
pie, in the interest of the democratic
party, has thrown up the contract.
The paper has passed into other hands,
its name will be changed to The Age,
and, according to announcement, " will
be strictly republican in its politics,
loyal to the best interests of the race at
all times, and to that end will wage re-
lentless war upon that party which has
ever stood as menace and stumbling
block to our advancement
IT is noticeable that the independent
press, those truly good newspapers
whose editors never let day pass
without some hint or suggestion that
they consider themselves custodians
of all that is fair and honest in politics,
are backward about giving the facts
and making proper criticism in matters
calities in Baltimore. One of the state
judges has ordered four hundred names
stricken from the voting-lists which
were put there illegally by the political
workers of Senator Gorham, under the
lead of President Cleveland's man Hig-
gins, and yet mugwumps are silent on
the subject and lauding Mr.. Cleveland
as the herald of the political millen-
nium.-NdSbud Telegraph.
In an interview with a Boston
Journal correspondent at Brattleboro,
Saturday, Colonel George w. Hooker
said he thought that the next republi-
can national convention would be held
in Chicago: that the chances seemed to
be in favor of Blaine's nomination:
that Lincoln's name would be a tower
of strength, but that Allison of Iowa
can poll more votes than any other re-
publican; that Vermont should send
unpledged and uninstructed delegates;
that Cleveland is sure to be renom-
mated; and that he Colonel Hooker)
should not be candidate for nominal
ton for member of congress in this
district next year. "There are per-
sonal reasons" he said, " which abso-
lutely preclude my acceptance of the
office were to be elected"
As the country becomes older wells
which formerly yielded good water are
becoming unreliable and late in the
season furnish water of doubtful quality.
This fact is well understood in cities.
where artificial supplies of water re-
place that from wells. The same i'm
purity in the water doubtless exists in
many country wells and is the cause of
| sickness and death at this season of the
year. If the well is low have it cleaned
out This should be done wherever
possible every two or three years.
Most people will be surprised at the
amount of impurities to be found in
old wells whose water they may for
years have been drinking. II the well
never gets low enough to be cleaned
out its water should be filtered before
being considered fit for home use.
WE have been asked why the WATCH
MAN does not club with democratic
papers for campaign purposes like the
II. Y. Because the WATCHMAN is a
republican paper all the time and de-
sirous of promoting republican success
in 1888, and does not believe that it is
either consistent or polite to aid in the
circulation of democratic papers. 1t
takes mugwump, anything-to-catch-a
subscriber paper to do that. The II.
| Y. has evidently abandoned all pre-
tense of being republican paper and
proposes TO run on non-partisan basis.
A newspaper that is compelled to cater
to all political elements to perpetuate
its existence must have an uncomfort-
able time of it. We are glad to see
that in its choice of republican papers
for clubbing purposes the II. Y. has Sc
lected two that are not unfriendly to
Mr.. Blaine. Let the good work 90 on.
COLONEL SMALLEY, while he was in
Washington, recently, said, with the
utmost gravity, that he believed in the
doctrine that there should be few
changes in the public service. This
remark excited amazement and he
added: " Certainly you would not eX-
pect me to advocate any changes in the
state of Vermont. There may be
few minor changes there which ought
to be made-that is, few more re-
publicans to be turned out. But we
are now in the same position that the
republican party was in when the demo-
Gratis came into power. They had all
the offices and were opposed to chang
ing Now that we have all the
offices we are opposed to changing.
This whole thing amounts to about
the same as if a thief went to a
man from whom he had been plumber
ing and insisted on having law and
order, and wanted to make a compact
that there should be no more stealing.
The plundered citizen would naturally
first demand that his stolen property
should be given back to him before he
would accede to the thief's proposition"